Venus Discovering the Dead Body of Adonis

Jusepe de Ribera

National Gallery of Ancient Art of Palazzo Corsini

 
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The painting depicts the final moment in the myth of Adonis, the handsome son of King Cinyras, with whom the goddess Venus fell in love. He was killed by a wild boar during a hunt (Ovid, Metamorphoses). The painting shows the shocked Venus as she finds the bloody, lifeless body of Adonis.

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